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Trump's new choice for national security adviser turns down offer

Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward has reportedly rejected US President Donald Trump's offer to be his next national security adviser. Sources have said he turned down the job because he wanted to bring his own team.

President Donald Trump's next choice for national security advisor turned down the offer, news agencies and CBS News reported on Thursday.

Trump also emphasized that he asked Flynn to resign because the retired lieutenant general had not been completely honest with Pence about his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak.

"The thing is, he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember. So either way, it wasn't very satisfactory to me," Trump said.

US officials also said this week that there were two other contenders for the post - acting national security adviser Keith Kellogg and retired General David Petraeus.

Petraeus, a retired four-star general, resigned as CIA director in 2012 and pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information relating to documents he had provided his biographer. He was fined $100,000 and remains on probation.